Smacking Hand Against Head

Our leader:

Harried homeowners seeking mortgage relief from a new Bush administration hotline Thursday had to contend with a bit of temporary misdirection from the president himself.

As he announced his plan to ease the mortgage crisis for consumers, President Bush accidentally gave out the wrong phone number for the new “Hope Now Hotline” set up by his administration.

Anyone who dialed 1-800-995-HOPE did not reach the mortgage hotline but instead contacted the Freedom Christian Academy — a Texas-based group that provides Christian education home schooling material.

Convenient that his mistake re-routed callers to a faith-based education company, no?

UPDATE: Hilarious:



(By the way, this "help" for mortgage borrowers is not much help at all. Anyone who's already fallen behind on their mortgages is ineligible. The fact that Bush blew the phone number is nothing if not symbolic.)